The trust which runs GP services in Bracknell Forest has been judged to be failing national child protection guidelines introduced following Baby P's death.

NHS Berkshire East was judged in a recent review not to be meeting health watchdog the Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards to ensure staff can spot abused children.

But according to the trust the shortfalls were only in terms of recording information for the CQC assessment, rather than in actual practices.

Debbie Daly, designated nurse for child protection for Berkshire East Community Health Services, said: “We were judged to be non-compliant around child protection in relation to insufficient assurance of safeguarding training.

“These issues have now been resolved and we now comply with the requirements of the CQC.

“We have carried out a thorough review of training to ensure all the relevant staff have had the safeguarding training they need for their role.

“We have tightened up our processes to ensure staff training is recorded correctly.”

Standards and ways of recording child protection measures have been made stricter since the tragic case of Baby P who was subjected to savage abuse under the noses of health care professionals and died in 2007.

Overall the trust was given the second highest ‘good’ rating for both quality of commissioning and quality of financial management.

The ratings are an improvement on last year where the trust was rated just ‘fair’ in both categories.

Dr Lise Llewellyn, chief executive of NHS Berkshire East, said: “As I promised last year we have managed to improve from a ‘fair’ standard to ‘good’.

“The improved ratings reflect a huge amount of work put in by staff to ensure local health services are continually improving.”

The CQC report, issued last month, showed that NHS Berkshire East met national targets for getting smokers to quit, swift cancer diagnosis and cancer treatment but fell short of chlamydia screening goals.